Editors' note: We asked Sandy Longhorn, runner-up in 2013's poetry chapbook contest, to give her thoughts on the diverse readership of Heron Tree. She's also provided a sampling from Heron Tree's archive. Enjoy! Let’s face it, a best-selling volume of poetry may be dwarfed in terms of numbers of copies sold when compared to a best-selling volume of literary prose, be it fiction or non-fiction, and even literary prose will continually be dwarfed by mass market books found in t

We've got a slew of good news from our 2012 authors. Congratulations to them, and here's some good reading for all of us: 2012 author Laura Neuman, winner of our first chapbook contest, has just published a full-length collection with Stockport Flats. Stop the Ocean is, according to CAConrad, "like being put into a caravan of familiar faces with a new lens like new eyes like a new literacy getting us off the usual perusal." You can also buy hir GGP chapbook The Busy Life here